On Mon, August 27, 2007 13:30, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 07:34:15AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: >> On Mon, August 27, 2007 01:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> > Here there be dragons. Remember that your initrd will be set up to >> > start your LVM system so that it can find the root device for the >> > kernel. Since I've never had to tweak an initramfs it could get >> > interesting. So with / on LVM, lvm will be started before init even >> > gets a chance to run anything in /etc/rc*.d. >> > >> >> You are right of course. I'll have to re-install from scratch in >> order to get a working initrd. And then copy back the /home and /usr >> partitions and most of the / partition... >> >> Or just maybe there is a rescue boot on the netinstall disk which >> just maybe will allow me to create a new initrd... > > The post-inst script of the kernel packages (and perhaps other packages) > rebuilds the initrd. Once you get things moved over to a non-lvm setup > (on your spare drive), you could chroot to it from your working LVM > setup, use aptitude to remove all the LVM packages, fix fstab, etc. > Then run dpkg-reconfigure [kernel package name] and perhaps it would > regenerate the initrd. You could then add this non-lvm setup to the > grub menu of the LVM setup. This way you can test the new setup without > killing the old one. > [...] > > Once you have a working non-LVM installation on the spare drive (which > shouldn't take too long), go ahead an try the LVM resizing stuff. Then > decide which way you want to go and remove the one you don't want. >
Good plan. Thanks for clearing my head about that. It is so much easier when someone else lays it out... > For moving files from the old install to the new one, I've always had > great luck with mc (midnight commander). I used to do this a lot before > I switched to LVM, what with hard disks dying, needing to change which > drive was in which box, etc. (drives are cheap but I'm cheaper). Yes, I like mc, but usually use good old cp -a or rsync for this kind of exercise. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
